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Never mind the fact that we are the helpless playthings of an indifferent universe – we can always build models. Models indulge our fantasies of control and desire, promising the potential of power over real-world counterparts; Voodoo dolls come to mind. The replicas themselves, when animated by skill or imagination, can offer an oddly satisfying illusion of life, fascinating both for how they do and do not resemble their full-sized subject.
Both Bill Finger and Ross Sawyers participate in the very grown-up sport of building and then photographing such scale models, and both of them achieve seriously interesting results, partly the result of their intentional blurring of the lines between the real and the merely constructed.
Both photographers are careful to include visual cues as to the illusion in progress, though their method for doing so is quite different. In the case of Sawyers, whose range of subject matter is much narrower and sense of the theatrical much more understated, it is a combination of little things, like the scale of the folds in the plastic wrap that appears in nearly every image, or the lack of depth in wall and window openings. Bill Finger, on the other hand, has in his most recent work chosen to pull his viewpoint far enough back to include a peek at the tabletop or wall space just beyond his construction, allowing us to recognize the artifice at work – but not without a bit of a shock, his models being so convincing.
Finger and Sawyers also start from different frames of reference: Sawyer includes literal quotes from artists like Edward Hopper and James Turrell, and is preoccupied with formal composition, and the poetics of emptiness and light; Finger, who worked in the film industry as an assistant cinemaphotographer, finds inspiration in both childhood memories and the world of Hollywood make-believe.
Many of the images in Sawyer's show are in black and white, further adding to the austere, even minimalist look of his work. Sawyers's field of inquiry is the unfurnished room, its bare walls and simple trim suggestive of modern, mass-market townhouses or apartments. Sawyers is interested in using the unpromising backdrop of these neutral spaces as a stage for quiet dramas of space, containment, shadow, and light. The human presence is implicit but remote; someone always seems to be moving in, or doing renovations, as most of the images contain some sort of plastic sheeting used to cover walls or windows, or protect portions of polished wooden floors or boxes. Patches of direct sun create patterns of light and shadow reminiscent of the paintings of Edward Hopper, and a clear, bright sky is always either visible or implied.
Edward Hopper is the direct source, in fact, of Sawyer's image Untitled (Blue Sky I), a model of an empty corner office, seen from just outside the building. Sawyer has reversed the Hopper painting, and removed the rather anonymous office worker and his furniture, but he has preserved the architecture and viewpoint , as well as carefully reproducing the trademark chevron of angled light on the far wall. Like Hopper, Sawyers uses light as a stand-in for emotion and memory, and there is an artificial, stage set quality to Hopper's office (stripped down in detail, rather than a fully-realized structure) that fits Sawyers's program as well.
A more interesting artistic dialogue is between Sawyer and James Turrell, the master of light and space whose sky viewing room is a permanent feature of the Henry Art Gallery. In an earlier Henry show, Turrell constructed imaginary floating cubes in the upper corners of empty rooms using only shaped light. Sawyers mimics the same construction, but by the very different means of actually cutting away the upper wall and ceiling of his space to achieve the required shape, something that works here because his structure has no visible thickness. Sawyer's phantom boxes, like his mysterious light and now-you-see-it-now-you-don't plastic sheeting, gives these most prosaic spaces the quality of an enigma, highlighting the tension between perception and comprehension, creation and destruction.
If Sawyers's frames are like stills from a moody, high concept art-house movie, Bill Finger works the much more populist territory of Film Noir. An astonishingly adept craftsman, his lovingly-detailed environments include genre-appropriate details like inch-long ashtrays, cigarette cartons and lighters, six-inch scuffed black office chairs and two-inch files folders. Nearly every image in his small exhibition might be another scene from the same movie. These include a hospital room; an interrogation room and an adjoining office; a bleak, windowless corridor; a leather armchair in a tenement bay window (seen from the outside at night); a close-up of what might be a crime scene; and a 50s Chevy half-submerged in a pond, a direct reference to Hitchcock's Psycho.
The cinema connection is made even more explicit by Finger's very smart decision to let us look slightly beyond his sets, where we catch glimpses of the tabletop, electric wires, cardboard, and even clothespins that are the mundane, real-scale underpinning of his work. It is fascinating how the magician explaining his tricks does not change our conviction that Finger's spaces simply record real environments, no matter that he explicitly demonstrates otherwise.
In Hospital Room, for example, details like the institutional blue and beige color scheme, the look of the slightly bent-upwards single bed with its accompanying tray table, the fake-woodgrain wardrobe closets, the panic button, and the not-quite fully-functional venetian blinds inspires a familiar feeling of aversion and dread in the viewer. That is no less true even though Finger shows us the edge of the raw foamcore ceiling and walls, the worktable on which the model sits, and the space of his workroom beyond. -The antiseptic corridor Exit seems to smell of recently-applied floor polish, and the flocked walls and black fire door are just as despair-inducing as they would be if we were just leaving an elderly relative ensconced nearby, in spite of our clear view of the wooden struts outside holding the whole construction together.
Everyone knows the old saw about the Materialist debating the Idealist concerning the nature of objective reality. The tale ends with a challenge to the Idealist to leave the room via the wall instead of the door, thus proving that the room itself is simply a mental construct. In the models of Bill Finger and Ross Sawyers, the integrity of the wall is indeed a figment of our mutual imagination, but we are a willing participant in granting it a physical and real-world presence.
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Reach for it, and you'll miss; let it loose, and it'll follow.
Kvan Um Zen Magyarország hírlevél kategóriák
Reach for it, and you'll miss; let it loose, and it'll follow.
To call heaven earth makes it earth? To name earth heaven makes it heaven?
It rains: the earth wet.
Day after day a very good day: Winds come and trees bow.
A smiling face offers mercy; A troubled mind contains vicious poison.
Need fire? Best strike a flint. Water? Dig a well.
A hungry dog bites a dry bone.
Sitting motionless, nothing happening — Spring coming, grass growing.
Ten thousand laws end in One : Don't stick to that, either!
Seeking words, chasing phrases: When do you have time for satori?
Pictured rice cakes dissolve hunger?
Killing or vivifying is in these hands.
Ordinary mind is the Way.
One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand.
Not flattered by praise, not hurt by blame.
Produce Mind Without attachment to anything.
No ugliness in a loved child.
Meeting Sakyamuni, kill him! Meeting Bodhidharma, kill him, too!
Fire is hot; water, cold.
From the origins nothing exists.
Cast away Dharma, Not to mention non-Dharma.
One snowflake falling on a burning furnace.
No good thought, no evil thought.
However priceless, a piece of gold In the eye is nothing but grit.
Merciful words come out of the merciful mouth.
Heaven, earth, and I: the same root. Everything and I: one thing.
Once you preach, the point is gone.
Coming back with satori but everything just as before: Hermit Mountain's drizzle and mist, Crooked River's waves . . .
Rich food doesn't tempt the man who has eaten.
Spring comes: grass grows.
With the slightest yes and no, Mind is lost in confusion.
Much understand, much problem. Little understand, little problem. Complete DON'T KNOW, no problem.
Spring opens a hundred flowers — for whom?
Watch your own steps!
Everything is true just as it is: Why dislike it? Why hate?
The man who's drunk water Knows if it's cool or warm.
Watch all sentient beings with merciful eyes.
From outside the shoes, to scratch where you itch.
All things that exist are like a dream, a phantom, a bubble, a reflection; they are like dew or lightning; thus should you view them.
Diamond Sutra
Angry waves: not so dangerous as man's mind.
Walking is Zen; sitting, too.
Teaching beyond teaching; No leaning on words and letters.
Never comparable to anything: How can I preach it?
Seek satori within yourself! Where else?
He dies, I die - Where can we meet?
When cold say cold; When hot say hot.
The Billion Worlds, a bubble on the sea; All Buddhas and Patriarchs, a flash of lightning.
What is the color of the wind? Where does the rain come from?
Open your mouth— instantly wrong; Move your tongue— against the truth.
Where no Buddha, the Buddha works.

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While its detachable keyboard dock remains a good idea and provides stellar battery life, the ASUS Vivo Tab RT has build quality issues, a cramped physical keyboard and is let down by a limited and frustrating Windows RT platform. At this price, it's really tough to recommend.
ASUS is well renowned for its Android-based Transformer series of tablets and the company has used much of the same formula to create the Windows 8 RT-based Vivo Tab RT. While the idea of the detachable keyboard dock remains innovative, the Vivo Tab RT has build quality issues, a cramped physical keyboard and the Windows RT platform is limited and often frustrating.
If you think the ASUS Vivo Tab RT looks familiar, that's because it is. It uses a very similar design to the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity, an Android based tablet that features the same detachable keyboard dock concept. The Vivo Tab RT itself without the keyboard dock makes a positive first impression. At 525g it's lighter than both the 4th Generation iPad and the Microsoft Surface RT. It measures just 8.3mm thick, too, so it's relatively comfortable to hold.
If you think the ASUS Vivo Tab RT looks familiar, that's because it is.
Our review model was finished in a grey, brushed aluminium colour, which is the main difference from the Transformer Infinity's "spun finished", circular pattern. This brushed finish takes up about three quarters of the back panel, with the other quarter taken up by an indented, grey plastic strip along the top. ASUS experienced widely reported issues with Wi-Fi and GPS performance on previous Transformer models, so the strip is obviously designed to prevent such issues from arising again. It does detract from the overall look of the Vivo Tab RT, but it's a compromise we can easily live with.
What's harder to live with is the Vivo Tab RT's questionable build quality. The case easily flexes when force is applied and twists far too easily for our liking. There's noticeable creaks when you press the back of the tablet, especially towards the edges of the device. The Vivo Tab RT feels far flimsier than the Transformer Prime tablet that it's based on.
There are another couple of annoyances, too. When holding the tablet with two hands you can often cover the speakers on either side, effectively muffling the sound. The speakers are loud enough to comfortably watch a movie or listen to music in a quiet room and the fact there's two of them means volume is punchier than most other tablets we've reviewed.
On the left side of the Vivo Tab RT you'll find a micro-HDMI port (covered by an annoying rubber flap) and a microSD card slot, while the top edge houses a small power/lock button with a tiny LED charging indicator and a microphone. On the right is a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and a volume rocker. The buttons are well positioned and easy to press.
On the bottom of the tablet is a proprietary ASUS dock connection. This may be an annoyance but it offers two benefits: it connects the tablet to the keyboard dock, and charges the device much faster (around an hour and a half) than a regular micro USB charger would. Also on the bottom of the Vivo Tab RT are two holes that attach to the dock. Unlike the Transformer Prime, the Vivo Tab RT's keyboard dock does not leave visible scuff marks on the bottom of the tablet. ASUS includes a full-sized USB adapter in the sales package, which plugs into dock port at the bottom.
The screen is bright and clear, displays vivid colours and has excellent viewing angles.
The ASUS Vivo Tab RT comes with a super IPS + display with a resolution of 1366x768, which is the same resolution that appears to be standard fare on the first round of Windows RT devices. The screen is bright and clear, displays vivid colours and has excellent viewing angles, particularly vertical. Its biggest weakness is the fact that it can't display the same super crisp text as the iPad's higher resolution 'retina' screen. This is most notable when displaying text, such as browsing Web pages through the Internet Explorer browser, or reading books through the Amazon Kindle app. For other tasks, like playing games, or watching movies, the Vivo Tab RT's display is excellent.
The ASUS Vivo Tab RT's keyboard dock adds a full-sized USB port, a trackpad, and its own built-in battery. ASUS says the Vivo Tab RT is good for up to nine hours of battery life as a stand alone tablet and up to 16 hours if the keyboard dock is connected. Impressively, if both the tablet and the keyboard dock batteries are fully charged, the Vivo Tab RT draws power from the keyboard dock first in order to preserve power for tablet-only use.
Using the keyboard dock is a chore thanks to the small keys and a cramped trackpad.
Unfortunately, using the keyboard dock is a chore thanks to the small keys and a cramped trackpad that hinders the overall user experience. The keys are spaced well but they are significantly smaller than the ones on the Transformer Pad Infinity's dock. We regularly and routinely missed keys while typing, even after a full week of use. The keys aren't backlit either, which makes typing at night time rather difficult.
The trackpad is very small and therefore doesn't lend itself to effectively use multitouch gestures, like pinch-to-zoom. Its height is also a particular problem for two finger scrolling on Web pages through the Internet Explorer browser. Unlike the Transformer Pad Infinity, the Vivo Tab RT's keyboard dock doesn't offer a full-sized SD card slot, which is a feature we really would have appreciated.
Another annoyance is connecting and removing the Vivo Tab RT to and from the dock. There's no firm click when the tablet attaches into place, although the arrows on both the dock and the tablet are a nice touch as is the audio confirmation that the dock is connected. Removing the tablet from the dock is a difficult and awkward process due to the odd location of the release switch on the bottom left side of the tablet. It's a two handed affair and the process is rather clunky.
As its name suggests, the ASUS Vivo Tab RT runs the Windows 8 RT operating system. It looks and operates just like the full version of Windows 8, with one big difference: it's basically a tablet-only version of Windows, which can only run apps from the Windows Store. There's no support for regular Windows desktop apps.
There aren't many apps in the Windows Store — the likes of Skype, eBay, TuneIn Radio, Evernote and Kindle are all present, but apps this author uses regularly, like Dropbox, Pocket, Spotify, Pinterest, Pulse News and Flipboard aren't available right now. The Store will only improve its catalogue over time as third-party app developers jump on board, but for now the Vivo Tab RT feels very limited.
The Store will only improve its catalogue over time but for now the Vivo Tab RT feels very limited.
There are a few positives despite the lack of apps. The Start screen, which uses a new Live Tile interface is intuitive and smooth. These tiles display live and updated information, so you can quickly glance at information without having to actually open apps. This is useful to see new emails as they arrive, for example, checking on the weather, or seeing the latest updates to your social networking feeds like Twitter and Facebook. The overall look and feel of the Start screen is also fresh and attractive and the vibrant interface appears to be floating on the Vivo Tab RT's screen.
Like all Windows RT tablets, the Vivo Tab RT also includes a full Microsoft Office suite with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps. The Office suite preloaded on the device is only a preview, but Microsoft says that once the full version is released, it will be available for users via Windows Update. It's a suite that allows you to save directly to the cloud (that is, Skydrive), which is convenient. Users get 7GB of SkyDrive storage for free, which is significantly more than those offered on other services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Apple's iCloud.
Gaming is also a highlight of the Vivo Tab RT. The Tegra 3 processor has no trouble dealing with graphically intense games like Riptide GP, while we also played the likes of Jetpack Joyride and Cut the Rope without any issues. The frame rate is fast and graphics are impressive. ASUS also bundles a few of extra apps with the Vivo Tab RT. The ASUS Camera app adds a few image effects to your photos, and SuperNote is handy if you don't already use an alternate notetaking app.
Once you start opening other apps, however, things take a turn for the worse. The Vivo Tab RT is a sluggish device that takes far too long to do basic tasks. Most apps, including Microsoft's pre-loaded native Windows RT apps, take several seconds to load. Once opened, they often need to load additional elements that takes more time. Further, swiping through open apps is often sluggish and the Windows Store offers abysmal performance. It crashed repeatedly during our testing.
What's more puzzling than the poor performance is that the Windows RT interface on the Vivo Tab RT looks exactly like Windows 8 and even has a Desktop component. The desktop component of Windows RT runs as its own app on the system, and you can open up programs and system windows within it. You can re-arrange windows like you can on a regular laptop or desktop computer, and you can use the File Explorer interface to copy, move and manage your files.
The mere fact that the Desktop is there will end up confusing many users who then try to install software from a Web site or a USB stick. However, the main problem is that you need to switch back and forth between the Windows 8 tablet user interface and the Desktop in order to get things done. For example, if you plug in a USB stick full of photos to the Vivo Tab RT and you want to open them up in the Photos app, you'll have to first transfer them to the Pictures library. If you open one photo (which opens in the Photos app by default) thinking that you can simply browse through the rest of the photos in the folder, you'll be disappointed. You can only flick through them once they are in the library.
These kind of inconsistencies are common place on the Vivo Tab RT.
Sadly, these kind of inconsistencies are common place on the Vivo Tab RT and the Windows RT operating system. Another example is a basic .wav file, like our office phone voicemail recording sent via email, that refused to play on the Vivo Tab RT. It opened in the Music app, then directed us to the Store to find an app that supports .wav files, where we were presented with a very thin selection. This basic file opens without issues on the Apple iPad and Google Android tablets.
The ASUS Vivo Tab RT comes with dual cameras — a front-facing 2-megapixel camera and a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera that also doubles as a 1080p video recorder. We found the front camera worked well for video calling apps like Skype, though it captures poor quality still images. The rear camera fares much better in this department and it's aided by the ASUS Camera app, which provides a number of image filters to use.
The Vivo Tab RT is a Wi-Fi only model at this stage. ASUS says it may release a 3G model in Australia at a later date, but no further details have been revealed.
The Vivo Tab RT has excellent battery life. During testing, we recorded best figures of just almost nine hours without the dock, and just over 14 hours with the keyboard dock connected. While this is slightly less than ASUS claims it is still a fantastic result. Even if you don't use the keyboard dock extensively, using it as a reasonably lightweight charger isn't a bad idea.
The 32GB Wi-Fi model of the ASUS Vivo Tab RT sells for $749 in Australia.
Elias Plastiras contributed to this review
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Nokia today unveiled a new budget oriented Windows Phone 7.5 running handset especially meant to cater towards the budget segment of the Indian market – the Lumia 510.
The Lumia 510 sports a 4-inch TFT screen with WVGA (800×480) resolution, a 800MHz Snapdragon S1 processor, 256MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, a 5MP camera at the back, along with all the usual connectivity features except for the lack of 3G and a microSD card slot. Nokia does provide 7GB of free storage space on SkyDrive to make up for the lack of space on the handset.
Keeping in mind the Indian market, Nokia will be launching the handset in five trendy colors including red, yellow, cyan, white and black.
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Got a message from my good friend Nona who has started her own line of fashion for woman cyclists. She is looking for an intern so I thought I'd help out and post this request:
Nona Varnado, NYC's sustainable women's bike fashion label is seeking an intern.
About Us: Fall/Winter 2010/2011 will be the third seasonal collection and most ambitious to date using cutting edge performance and natural fabrics, couture level garment design while establishing a stronger brand online, through events such as Interbike and select sponsorships and a strong marketing program. It's a small DIY mentality focused on making amazing things in an ethical manner. We're always super busy, but being in NYC means there's always friends, drinks and shows to keep it fun + inspired.
About you: we are looking for an unpaid intern for a 2-3 month commitment of 10-25 hours per week. A longer term is possible through fashion week in February 2011 depending on fit. It is expected that an intern will have some goals (learning new skills, gaining experience, resume building or college credit) and a specific schedule will be created to make sure you're benefiting from the experience.
Skill range: we're looking for some one who is very interested or skilled in one or two of the following areas: production support (assistant), sales/marketing, web design.
If you know anyone in the NYC area who'd be interested in helping a small label produce a new collection, handle media and promotions and generally be a fun + positive person to hang out with, please let us know!
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The tenth edition of the Poetic Research Bureau's Sunday afternoon live magazine, on the topic of transport – physical, spiritual, and otherwise – takes place on Sunday, October 16.
Come for great film, video, translations and essay from Claudia Keelan, Anal Shah, Courtney Stephens and Olivia O Wyatt!
- Claudia Keelan, reading from her collection of translations of 12th c female troubadours, Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz
- Anal Shah, screening of his documentary on rail travel in Indian cinema, Chalchitra Railyatra
- Courtney Stephens, presenting 16mm "home travelogues," amateur films shot by American women abroad during the 1930s and 40s
- Olivia O Wyatt, screening of *I Met My Husband in the Middle of the Sea*, from her recent film, Sailing A Sinking Sea
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Anal Shah is an Indian filmmaker and photographer. As someone who straddles multiple cultures between his academic and creative practice, Anal's work explores issues of identity, migration, and other things that are usually "lost in translation". His work has been shown at numerous Festivals including premieres at the Vienna International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Detroit Docs to name just a few. Anal received both his undergraduate as well as graduate education at the California Institute of the Arts.
Courtney Stephens is a filmmaker and occasional writer. Her films have played at galleries and festivals internationally and was recently included in the 2016 Flaherty NYC Series. She co-programs Veggie Cloud, a bi-monthly screening and lecture series in Los Angeles, and has guest lectured at the Royal Geographical Society, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Princeton University, and elsewhere. She is currently completing a feature length essay film, the subject of a Fulbright scholarship, on female travelogues.


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How did the Beethoven Center find its way to San Jose?
A real estate developer in Phoenix, Arizona named Ira F. Brilliant donated his extensive collection of 75 first editions of Beethoven's music to San Jose State University to form the basis of a library and study center devoted to Beethoven's music and humanitarian accomplishments.
In May 1983 Ira and Irma Brilliant met with Dean Arlene Okerlund to discuss Ira's proposal to donate his rich collection to the University. Dean Okerlund and music librarian Barbara Jeskalian flew to Phoenix to inspect the collection in person, and after hearing their report, President Gail Fullerton gave her blessing to the new enterprise. A press conference on November 16, 1983 announced the creation of the first center in North America devoted solely to Beethoven.
The University appointed a professor from the History Department, Tom Wendel, to serve as the acting director until a permanent director could be found because of his many ties and contacts with San Jose's arts community. An executive board was formed for the 1983-84 academic year, and the board met to plan the Center's activities and hire its founding director. After a two-year search, the University offered William Meredith, newly graduated PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the position, and the Center opened to the public in September 1985. A few months later, curator Patricia (Elliott) Stroh joined the staff.


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The oldest and largest of the Giza Pyramids is that of the IV Dynasty pharaoh Khufu – better known as Cheops – who probably reigned 2589–2566 BC. It originally stood 140m high and measured 230m along its base, but the removal of its casing stones has reduced these dimensions by three metres. The pyramid is estimated to weigh six million tons and contain over 2,300,000 blocks whose average weight is 2.5 tons (though some weigh almost 15 tons). This gigantic mass actually ensures its stability, since most of the stress is transmitted inwards towards its central core, or downwards into the underlying bedrock. It is thought to contain three main chambers: one in the bedrock and two in the superstructure. By the time archeologists got here, their contents had long since been looted, and the only object left in situ was Khufu's sarcophagus. In 1993, a German team using a robot probe accidentally discovered a door with handles supposedly enclosing a fourth chamber, apparently never plundered by thieves, which might contain the mummy and treasures of Cheops himself. Another robot, sent down in 2002, pushed a camera through a hole drilled in the door to reveal another, similar door behind it. Further probes have been sent down since then, but no new chambers have been discovered.
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SHE was trusted to look after a vulnerable and frail pensioner but snapped and spat at him during a night shift at a nursing home.
Now the devastated daughter of the 85- year-old who was assaulted by the carer claims that the incident may have contributed to her dad's death just one month later.
Care assistant Angelina Corpuz spat at the elderly man, who suffered from severe dementia, while she was working nights at Wilton Manor Nursing Home, in Southampton.
One of her concerned colleagues alerted bosses to the incident and Corpuz was prosecuted.
At Southampton Crown Court the 59- year-old pleaded guilty to spitting at the resident, well known to staff for having severe mobility and communication issues as a consequence of his dementia.
She has been sacked from her job as a result of the incident and can now no longer work in the care industry. She now works as a cleaner.
The court heard how she and another care assistant were taking him to his room on the top floor of the home when he started becoming frustrated and began spitting at them.
In response, the court heard how Corpuz snapped and spat back at him, something which she insists she did to show him that he shouldn't do it and didn't mean for any saliva to land on him.
The incident was reported by her colleague, who Judge Derwin Hope praised for her "courage" in doing so.
Judge Hope said that Corpuz had "recklessly assaulted" the victim, who had been in the home for eight months, but accepted that it "arose from the strain" of her job.
He added: "It was a terrible way to treat anyone, particularly one so vulnerable and who relied upon you to treat him with care and decency, as did his family."
She was sentenced to complete 120 hours of unpaid community work and ordered to pay £200 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
In mitigation, Richard Martin said that Corpuz, of Bevois Valley Road, Southamprton, had no previous convictions.
She had come to the "end of her tether"
and "snapped", he added.
But in her victim impact statement read to court, the victim's daughter, who does not want to be named, said: "I can't help wondering if the assault contributed to his death."
After the case she added: "My dad was a lovely, caring man who lived for his family.
"We kept him at home for so long with mum but there came a point where he needed proper care and we put our trust in the staff at the nursing home, and on that night that trust was betrayed.
"You are literally handing over the life of someone you love into someone else's hands and that is one of the most difficult decisions. I can't begin to imagine what my dad went through on that evening, he must have been terrified.
"It was a gross act of inhumanity that has disgusted and appalled me."
A spokesperson for the home said: "Everyone at the home was shocked by Angelina Corpuz's behaviour last year.
"None of us can understand how an experienced and fully trained care assistant could behave this way.
"Our people used our whistle-blowing system to raise concerns about this individual's behaviour and we acted immediately by suspending this person and calling in the police.
"The actions of this individual last year do not reflect the home or the committed people who work here. Our residents' welfare is always our number one priority."


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For those of you who want to root your OnePlus One (Why root? See Why Root Android?) to run rooted apps or want to install a custom ROM, here's a step-by-step tutorial guide you can follow for all Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Rooting the OnePlus One requires the user to unlock the bootloader. Unlocking bootloader will ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE, so make a backup of everything including your personal photos, videos, etc beforehand! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!! Will rooting OnePlus One void my warranty? Technically yes, but you can unroot/unbrick completely back to 100% stock so you can always unvoid warranty. So, if you have a Window, Mac OS X, or Linux (like Ubuntu) computer, let's go ahead and root this bad boy! Before we begin, you can also download all the files you need here for all Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux/Ubuntu: Download:
Step 1. First power off your OnePlus One, then hold down Volume Up and Power buttons together for about 3 seconds. When you see "fastboot mode" with CyanogenMod logo, let go of both buttons. Then connect a micro-USB cable from your computer to your OnePlus One. Step 2. For Mac or Linux, skip to Step 3 as you do not need to install drivers. For Windows, open Device Manager (go to Control Panel->Hardware & Sound->Device Manager). If you have previously installed ADB drivers for other phones like Nexus 4 or Nexus 5, you may see "Android ADB Interface". If you see that, skip to Step 3. However, if you don't see that and you see "Android" with an exclamation mark, follow our video tutorial and install ADB drivers. Download: Download ADB Drivers Step 3. Next, you will need fastboot files. You don't need to download the whole Android SDK (which can take hours) to get this, just download fastboot.zip and unzip, you should get a folder called fastboot with all the files you need for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Download: Download fastboot.zip Also you need to download TWRP or CWM recovery image and put it in the same folder as fastboot. Download: Download TWRP or CWM Recovery for OnePlus One Step 4. Next, open up a command prompt (type "cmd" in Windows search bar) or terminal for Mac/Linux. WARNING: This is where we unlock the bootloader on the OnePlus One. By doing this step, it will ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE!!! Then type: For Windows:
cd Download
cd fastboot
fastboot oem unlock For Mac OSX:
cd Download
cd fastboot
chmod 755 *
./fastboot-mac oem unlock For Linux/Ubuntu:
cd Download
cd fastboot
chmod 755 *
sudo ./fastboot-linux oem unlock Step 5. Your phone will reboot couple times and reboot. Once rebooted, simply sign in to your account then go to Settings->About Phone and hit the "Build Number" 5 times until it says "You have enabled development settings". Step 6. Then hit the back button once, you should see a new menu option called "Developer options", press on that. And make sure "Update CM recovery" is checked OFF. This is so your phone won't try to re-install stock recovery over the custom CWM/TWRP recovery we will be installing. Besides, we no longer need a stock recovery once rooted, CWM/TWRP recovery will handle everything for us. Step 7. Download and copy SuperSU zip file onto your OnePlus One. Download: Download SuperSU zip file Step 8. Put your phone into fastboot mode like you did in Step 1 and connect micro-USB cable to your OnePlus One. Step 9. Then type: (You can also copy & paste duh!) For Windows:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-188.8.131.52-bacon.img
fastboot erase cache For Mac OSX:
./fastboot-mac flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-18.104.22.168-bacon.img
./fastboot-mac erase cache For Linux/Ubuntu:
sudo ./fastboot-linux flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-188.8.131.52-bacon.img
sudo ./fastboot-linux erase cache Also you can replace the file name "openrecovery-twrp-220.127.116.11-bacon.img" with the recovery image you want to use (e.g. CWM Recovery image) but I do recommend TWRP Recovery as it's more versatile. You can also use OTG Flash Drives with TWRP which can be handy in leaving all of your large backup ROMs separate from your phone's storage. Step 10. Unplug your micro-USB cable as we don't need it anymore. Then hold down Volume Down and Power buttons together. When your phone reset and you see OnePlus One logo, let go of both buttons. Step 11. You should now see TWRP Recovery, choose "Install". Then browse your storage and find the SuperSU zip file you copied over earlier and install it. Step 12. Reboot your OnePlus One and you should find SuperSU app. Open the app and if you don't get any errors, your OnePlus One has been fully rooted. Also if it asks you to update binaries, say "yes". Step 13. You can install and open a rooted app like Titanium Backup app to verify you have full root. You should see a Superuser request window. Congratulations! You've rooted your OnePlus One in "High On Android" style. Pat yourself on the back and go show off to all your friends that your OnePlus One is better than their phone. Q&A Q: I have a question! A: Please post your questions below in the comments box. Q: How can I thank you for your tutorial? A: I don't take donations but if you could PLEASE subscribe to my Zedomax YouTube channel, that would help me greatly and thank you! Credits – +ChainFire for awesome SuperSU, XDA user Acer73 for Philz CWM, and TWRP for TWRP Recovery!
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Hi Max
I rooted my OPO for the 3rd time. I never replaced the recovery manager, just booted it, then flashed the supersu zip. Just got another OTA update, that unrooted my OPO. Would be much easier if I could install TWRP or something like that. The question is: will OTA updates still work, if I do that?
Thanks in Advance
i have a samsung s4 gt-i9505 and rooted it awhile back but struggled and didn't download anything. At the moment it has android 4.2.2 and i'd like to get the latest kik kat as well as unvoid the warranty. how would i do this? I know this a lot but any help would be apreciated. thanks
I just got my one plus however it's on 4.4.4 and I cannot find anything that will root it. I have been able unlock boot loader but no twrp
My oneplus started bootlooping! what should I do?
Go back into twrp and clear cache and dalvik. Reboot.
Please root 33r!
I followed your steps and everything went perfect until step #12… When I reboot my 1+1, I get the 1+ logo and then the Cyanogenmod logo spinning… and it get stucked there! what did I do wrong? HELP!
Thank you very much!
Finally I can use my lovely LINUX \*__*/
Great tutorial and thank you for the files. I'm a noob to Android, having migrated over from iOS, and I have a mac, so this tutorial hit the nail on the head. Great job. Thanks for putting together the files too.
hi, i'm having HUGE issues with my OPO. Stock rom, no root. My phone reboots constantly. I was able to unlock the bootloader and perform a full wipe from simple recovery, but this doesn't resolve the problem. Every time I turn on the phone random apps keeps crashing and messages appear on the screen: "unfortunately app x stopped working" then after a while it restarts and the same thing happens after the restart. Do you think I have to send it back for substitution or there is a way around, maybe from adb?
Thanks in advance.
Hi, my phone just never stop rebooting, i try to reset to factory setting, and it just keep rebooting afterwards. I dont know what to do now
Mac-di-Alex:~ Alex$ cd Downlads
-bash: cd: Downlads: No such file or directory
iMac-di-Alex:~ Alex$ cd Downloads
iMac-di-Alex:Downloads Alex$ cd fastboot
iMac-di-Alex:fastboot Alex$ chmod 755 *
iMac-di-Alex:fastboot Alex$ ./fastboot-mac oem unlock
I'm stuck here!!
what should i do now?
im stuck here as well. i see no response to this question did you ever figure it out?
I did chmod 755*, no space between the 755 and the * and it worked
Can you do a guide on how to unroot and return to 100% original to get back warranty on Linux? That would be much appreciated. Thank you.
hi AFAIK rooting DOES NOT void your warranty…. so yeah
Where's the video tutorial to installing ADB-drivers?
First thanks for the howto.
Now one thing.
Once Titanium backup has been dl I get an error message saying: sorry couldn't access root privileges This app will not work! Please check that your rom is rooted and try again…
But I didn't get any error message on running SU.
Hi Max,
thank you so much for putting up this guide, it does help a lot with a non-tech person like me. 3 days ago, my oneplus phone had a Locksreen error, which leads to the phone completely non-usable, it force me to do a factory reset, then, it end up in a boot loop.
I had been searching days for solution, and glad to find yours video and guide here which looks like the easiest to understand for me.
anyway, cut a long story short, I had been following the step, but when I was in step 4, in the cmd, instead of showing "OKAY", I got a message "Fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external command".
I am not sure where it goes wrong, do you have any suggestion?
I was now able to finish step 4, and able to get the "OKAY" message, but at this stage, the phone is not rebooting, is there anything else I need to do?
Worked as written by using my Ubuntu Linux desktop machine with one exception. Had to reboot to TWRP, tap Wipe, then "Swipe to Factory Reset", and then reboot the phone, as Keith mentions above. (note: could not communicate with the phone using my laptop with Ubuntu Linux on an SD card.)
You can also do an easy install of ADB & fastboot repositories under UBUNTU Linux. Reference http://lifehacker.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-androids-adb-and-fastboot-to-1586992378 .
Hello everyone. I had missed the part where you have to add SuperSU on your android device. I have already installed the recovery tool. How do I go back and the file?
If you can go into the recovery mode and your computer can recognize your device, add the file onto the phone and continue with the steps
Hey guys. I missed on the part where you have to add the SuperSU folder into your android phone. I have already installed on recovery tool by TeamWin. How do i go about adding the folder again? Thank you!
I followed your steps, but when i try and enter recovery mode its freezes on a screen with the oneplus logo and 'powered by android'
Thank You
is it normal that my devide takes so long for rebooting after installing SuperSU?
Once you've installed SuperSU you'll have an option to wipe cache/dalvik and an option to reboot system. Wipe the cache/dalvik, hit the back button, and hit the reboot system button
after fastboot oem unlock my 1+1 doesnt make anything
i try it so many times and still anything
what the f*** i make wrong????
any solution????plssssssssssssssssssssss
ok…i solve it
I don't remember now…but after update it lost it.
i did TWRP Recovery and after step 11 i couldnt find Super SU and while trying to reboot it asked whether to update SU and i said yes and after that while trying to reboot the phone is standing still at CYANOGEN without any action. So please guide me if anything can be done
I did not wipe the cache/dalvik before pressing reboot option and now my oneplus phone is not going beyond cyanogen boot animation on screen. what does that mean?
Hi Sandeep, Even I am facing the same problem, what did you do to over come this problem
"There is now SU binary installed, and super SU cannot install it. This is a problem!
If you just upgraded to android 4.3, you need to manually re-root-consult the relevant forums for your device!" – this is the message I got after opening app…. what does that mean.. what should i do now? @
After reboot, it is getting stuck in cyanogen logo screen and it is not loading further. I did factory reset in twrp as well. What should i do to make my phone to work ?? Please reply me asap
My phone kept doing that as well; I followed what Will Winifred suggested in the comments above and it worked.
I'm stuck in the boot screen in between Steps 10 and 11. I'm not sure if I can undo the process or how I can fix this. I am unable to open TWRP recovery.
this is a stupid tutorial like all the others. all the time you miss something
my phone doesn't reboot after typing fastboot oem unlock D: please help me
I DO NOT see "Android ADB Interface"
How long does it take after the fastboot oem thing (to reboot)
Thank you so much but you should update the super su rar file
for step 4 the seccond cmd prompt command "cd fastboot" did not work for me. please help!
My OnePlus One phone got stuck. I followed the exact same set of instructions, except that i tried installing Latest version of Super SU. Now my phone is stuck at the Cyanogen screen post startup and wont load anything else. Please help
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SUNY Canton Counseling Director Awarded for Excellence in College ServiceTuesday, May 31st, 2011
SUNY Canton's College Council has presented Director of Counseling Melinda Miller with the 2011 Excellence in College Service Award, recognizing her dedication to the College's students and the campus community.
"In times of personal need and crisis, our students know they can rely on and trust Melinda," SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy said. "Day in and day out, she takes an active interest in all of our students, both those who live on-campus and our commuter students as well. She is the type of person every college and university dreams of having in their counseling office."
Miller came to the College in October 1996 as the coordinator for substance abuse and prevention and was named a senior counselor in August 1998. She was promoted to interim director in August 2006 before permanently becoming director the following March.
In addition to providing students with personal counseling around the clock, her office works to promote a safe and positive atmosphere on campus. They handle crisis intervention, present educational programs, workshops and activities that contribute to overall student development, and offer training for staff members and students serving as resident assistants.
"Her willingness to go above and beyond what her job expectations define has allowed her to make effective changes in the Counseling Center to meet the needs of SUNY Canton's every changing population," said Michael Herzog, a counselor at the College. "Besides effectively completing the responsibilities associated with her leadership position she also makes the time to be involved in just about every other aspect of campus life."
Miller serves as the advisor for the Peer Educators and the Commuter Club on campus. She also teaches two sections of Alcohol and Drugs in Society. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the American College Counseling Association.
Her helpful demeanor can be felt throughout the local community. "Melinda has worked with many local agencies, trying to improve student access to mental health care which is so limited to the North Country," said Patricia A. Todd, director of health services at the College's Davis Health Center. "She is always ready to serve students, even in the middle of the night when there is a crisis. Her personal contact with students is the most outstanding quality of her professional character."
Faculty and staff across campus have noted Miller's enthusiasm when working with students. "She is one of those few professionals whom I could always look to for support and to count on for assistance," said Michael J. Perry, executive director of SUNY Canton's College Association. "Melinda is a student advocate and will do whatever necessary to support the needs and success of the students of our college."
Prior to SUNY Canton, Miller worked as a parent enrichment coordinator and counselor at the St. Lawrence/Lewis Counties BOCES branch. She was also a mental health rehabilitation counselor for the Seaway House in Ogdensburg.
Miller received her bachelor's degree from SUNY Potsdam in 1991 and her Master's of Education in Counseling and Human Development from St. Lawrence University in 1993. In 2005, she completed her Certificate of Advanced Studies in Counseling and Development from St. Lawrence.
She resides in Ogdensburg with her husband, Eric, and children, Jordan and Madison.
The Excellence in College Service Award is awarded annually to a member of the non-teaching professional staff who demonstrates effectiveness in performance and university service, professional ability and mastery in their specialization. She was recognized at the College's Recognition Day ceremony on Thursday, May 26.


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We need to play again!!!!
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Lets play sometime! Two of my partners moved so between that and recovering from my injury, I need to get back into it! I was a strong 4.0/4.5 prior to the injury
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Before you go to the theater to watch Jessica Biel in action in Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake this weekend, check her out in this clip from Pascal Laugier's horror thriller, The Tall Man. Biel plays a small town nurse who tracks down her child after he is taken by the mysterious urban legend known as The Tall Man. The film is available on VOD starting today and will see a limited theatrical release starting on August 31st. The Tall Man also stars Jodelle Ferland, Stephen McHattie, William B. Davis and Jakob Davies. Hit the jump to watch the clip.
Check out the new clip of Biel in The Tall Man (via Shock Til Ya Drop), followed by the official synopsis:
In an isolated, slowly dying mining town, children are vanishing without a trace – abducted, the townsfolk whisper, by a mysterious entity known locally as "The Tall Man." Town nurse Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) seems skeptical…until her young David disappears in the middle of night. Frantic to rescue the boy, Julia lives every parent's darkest nightmare in this twisting, shock-around-each-corner thriller from acclaimed director Pascal Laugier ("Martyrs") called THE TALL MAN.


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Ex-grocery chief has expired food plan for Boston
Ex-Trader Joe's exec proposes Urban Food Initiative
The former president of Trader Joe's said Tuesday he will soon open the doors to a new concept facility in Dorchester's Codman Square, selling nutritional prepared foods at fast food prices from products now discarded by supermarkets daily.
"You're trying to create an opportunity for affordable nutrition for those who are struggling to be able to eat well," said Doug Rauch, who headed Trader Joe's for nearly two decades, "so that you end up with not having an economic penalty to be able to eat nutritionally."
"The idea came out of 31 years of watching some wonderful food be thrown out every day," he said, "food at grocery stores because of its sell by, or best by date, is thrown in a dumpster."
Rauch said sell by or use by dates are often arbitrary to help retailers rotate their products.
He said there is a wide gap between most food that is discarded and food that is no longer nutritious or eatable.
While he said Trader Joe's and most supermarkets give leftover products to food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens and other charities, most of it still ends up in the trash. He said the average supermarket discards $2,300 worth of food daily and 40 percent of the food grown in the United States is never consumed.
He also cited studies showing 50 million people in this country are considered to be "food insecure", too proud to go to a food pantry, but eating unbalanced meals that lead to diabetes, heart disease or obesity.
He is currently negotiating with the Codman Square Health Center to buy a 10,000 square foot building at the corner of Park and Washington Streets in Dorchester. He hopes to begin building a kitchen by this summer and open the doors to the yet unnamed store by this fall.
Currently operating under the name Urban Food Initiative, Rauch said the kitchen also would serve as a training center for food preparation.
The concept is "lower in fat, sodium, cholesterol, but tasty," he said, "and offer this product at prices that compete with fast food."
But it will take some convincing that this idea isn't simply leftover food for poor people.
"I'd be concerned about the freshness and quality of the food," said one woman who said she lives near Codman Square.
"Everything that is being sold should have an expiration date on it, if it is fresh food," said an attorney who is frequently in the area, just down the street from the courthouse. But he said he would certainly consider shopping there once it is opened.
Another woman who lives just blocks away agreed expiration dates are nothing more than guidelines.
"Sometimes you have stuff in your house - even though it's outdated, it's still good. You still use it," she said.


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A sprawling epic set in South Africa during the early years of European settlement, Henry King's Untamed is a bit untamed itself condensing a meandering narrative into less than two hours of screen time and keeping its top-billed star off screen for large portions of that running time.
The Production: 3/5
A sprawling epic set in South Africa during the early years of European settlement, Henry King's Untamed is a bit untamed itself condensing a meandering narrative into less than two hours of screen time and keeping its top-billed star off screen for large portions of that running time. The movie certainly presents some unique sequences, and it doesn't lack for action or melodrama (in some ways resembling Gone With the Wind with its feisty heroine and featuring a love triangle played against a background of uprisings and conflict spreading over many years). But, the highs and lows of the main character seem abrupt and arbitrary, and believable motivation isn't a key facet of the storytelling.
Headstrong lassie Katie O'Neill (Susan Hayward) and Dutch freedom fighter Paul Van Riebeck (Tyrone Power) meet in Ireland in 1847 where she's instantly smitten with the strapping young man. But his first love is his people fighting for their rights in South Africa, a land Paul recommends to the O'Neills if they ever get the wandering spirit. Within a year when the Irish potato blight wipes out their farm, Katie, her new husband Shawn (John Justin), and their baby head out to Capetown to begin life anew. Once there, they learn land is being given away free in the interior, but it requires travel through treacherous Zulu territory. Joining a wagon train with similarly minded settlers, the homesteaders come up against the ferocious Zulus, and Katie loses Shawn to a Zulu arrow, but Paul's Free State fighters save the day and convey them to their promised territory. Katie realizes she has always been in love with Paul, but she's being pursued by wagon train master Kurt (Richard Egan) who can't get the temperamental Irish lass out of his mind. With Paul heeding the call to arms once more, Katie allows Kurt to work her land, not making any promises to him but secretly hoping Paul will return to her one day.
Based on the book by Helga Moray, the screenplay by Talbot Jennings, Frank Fenton, and Michael Blankfort crams lots of emotional upheaval into less than two hours, but the shifting tides for Katie and her kin are abrupt and too soapy for belief. For example, later in the film, Katie barters her favorite emerald gown for a huge uncut diamond which sets her up to live splendidly in Capetown and then in the next scene informs us she squandered her fortune and now needs to find more diamonds. Earlier, her farm goes from thriving to ruined from one gigantic storm, and the emotional rivalry between the two men for her favors is mechanical narrative writing of the most mediocre kind. The rivalry does lead to an unusual sequence: a duel with whips which is both novel and exciting, and director Henry King also uses the wide Cinemascope canvas to display splendidly the lengthy snake-like ribbon of the wagon train stretching over miles of South African terrain as well as wowing us with the enormity of the two Zulu attacks in all their ferocity and cunning (with seemingly thousands of extras). There is a climactic shootout between the Boar commandos and outlaws which have taken over a quiet town, but the last third of the film is herky-jerky in its plotting and execution with a romantic happy-ending denouement which again lacks believable motivation and continuity with what has gone before.
Top-billed Tyrone Power makes only sporadic appearances in the film popping into and out of Katie's life as the needs arise (you'll immediately think of Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind and Robert Redford in Out of Africa, both top-billed but with limited screen time in comparison to their female co-stars). Susan Hayward is the true star of the film often serving as its narrator to segue between scenes where long periods of time have passed. Both stars play what's on the page, but they add no new colors to their previous performances. She especially has the more colorful character but only occasionally really seems to dig deeply within for the person she's portraying. Power pretty much walks through his limited amount of screen time not helping us to understand at all why he's the be all and end all for Katie. Once again, Richard Egan picks up the slack playing a roistering buck determined to win Katie and willing to do just about anything to claim her. Rita Moreno plays one of her sassy slave girls devoted to Egan's Kurt though he only uses and abuses her when Katie isn't around. Agnes Moorehead is completely wasted as the nursemaid to Katie's children (the younger one is played by the tiny Kevin Corcoran before he gained fame at Disney), and wonderful actors like Hope Emerson, Henry O'Neill, and John Justin get only a few moments to display their wares.
Video: 3/5
3D Rating: NA
Before the movie begins, we are presented with the dreaded "This movie has been reformatted to fit your screen" card, but actually that never happens. Though the liner notes proclaim this to be a full frame transfer, it's actually in the Cinemascope 2.55:1 aspect ratio but is merely letterboxed without anamorphic enhancement. Without it, sharpness is only average, and the DeLuxe color seems a bit faded, brownish, and dated in most of the scenes (the opening sequence supposedly set in Ireland has the best color by far). There are a few random specks here and there, and the reel change markers are in full view, but the most annoying artifact is the aliasing which again might have been helped had the transfer been anamorphically enhanced. The movie has been divided into chapters every ten minutes so this movie has 12 chapters.
Audio: 3.5/5
Volume levels need to be adjusted downward before starting the film to prevent distortion or damage to your equipment. The Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound mix incorporates the directionalized dialogue as best it can from the original sound elements, and the stirring Franz Waxman score and the atmospheric effects are blended nicely with the dialogue with no problems. While there may be a little bit of low level hiss present, it's never a major concern, and the sound remains the disc's strongest feature.
Special Features: 0/5
There are no bonus features on this made-on-demand disc.
Overall: 3/5
Henry King's Untamed was probably more enthralling in its day than it is today with its haphazard narrative, uneven though occasionally impressive direction, and patchy star performances. At least the Fox Cinema Archive release presents the entire widescreen frame even if it isn't anamorphically enhanced. For this series of releases, that's often more than we've come to expect.


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Celery root might be ugly, but it provides the punch for this easy, make-ahead dinner.
Yotam Ottolenghi puts this dish in his "lazy" category, because you put it together, then relax while it cooks. Comfort food is another term. It's warming, easy to eat, packed with flavour, requires little cleanup, and can be made a day or so ahead and reheated. Two ingredients give it punch: the ugly, celery-flavoured root also called celeriac, and fennel seeds. The Jerusalem-born chef, celebrated both for his London restaurants and lively cookbooks, includes it in his latest book, Ottolenghi Simple (Appetite by Random House, $42). Serve this dish with couscous or rice, and a little Greek-style yogurt. A beautiful, well-written book, it has an easy-reading layout and exceptional photographs by Jonathan Lovekin.
Beef meatballs with lemon and celery root
Serves 4
¾ pound (350 to 400 g) ground beef
1 medium onion, finely chopped
3 cups (750 mL) fresh, white breadcrumbs
1 cup (250 mL) flat-leaf parsley, chopped, plus sprigs for trim
1 large egg, beaten
¾ teaspoon (4 mL) ground allspice
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons (30 mL) olive oil
1 medium celery root, peeled, in 1-inch (2.5 cm) cubes
3 garlic cloves, crushed
½ teaspoon (2 mL) ground turmeric
1-1/2 teaspoons (7 mL) fennel seeds, crushed
1 teaspoon (5 mL) sweet smoked paprika
2 cups (500 mL) chicken stock
3-1/2 tablespoons (50 mL) lemon juice
In a large bowl, combine the beef, onion, breadcrumbs, parsley, egg, allspice, ½ teaspoon (2 mL) salt, and some pepper. Using your hands, mix well and form into about 20 balls about 1-1/2 inches (4 cm) in diameter.
In a large, heavy frying pan with a lid, heat oil over medium-high heat and sear meatballs for about five minutes, turning to brown on all sides. Set aside meatballs on a plate.
Add celery root, garlic, turmeric, fennel and paprika to the pan and cook over medium-high heat, stirring, for two minutes, until the garlic is golden and spices are aromatic. Be careful not to burn the ingredients.
Return meatballs to the pan and add stock, lemon juice, ½ teaspoon (2 mL) salt, and some pepper. Bring to a boil, lower heat to low, cover and simmer mixture for 30 minutes.
Remove lid and continue to simmer for about 10 minutes to thicken sauce.
Remove pan from heat and let stand five to 10 minutes. Serve, sprinkled with more parsley. (Dish may be cooled and refrigerated, covered, for up to two days, then reheated.)


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text: In the wake of Mary Meeker's latest Internet Trends Report, the important news seems to be all about mobile. In May of this year, mobile accounted for 25% of all online traffic. Mobile is growing 1.5X every year, and that number is projected to grow.Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends Report was just released, and it's a wealth of information for the tech world and beyond. We've been hearing a lot about mobile in recent months, especially at our annual conference, ForumCon, but questions still remain on just how much attention should be averted from desktops and put into mobile. Mobile is certainly a growing trend, but as some of our research suggests it hasn't fully taken the place of desktops. Meeker further explores these contrasting platforms and describes, with raw data, just exactly what is happening and where the future of online activity is headed.As seen in one of Meeker's slides below, mobile is growing exponentially. In May of 2014 mobile accounted for 25% of all online traffic. That might not seem like a lot when you consider that 75% of traffic is still going through desktops. However, the real potential of mobile is seen when looking at the slope of the trendline. Mobile is growing 1.5X every year, and that number is projected to continue to get bigger. By looking at the graph it can be inferred that by 2015 at least 35% off all online traffic will be coming from mobile, further closing in on the margin with desktop traffic.There are a number of reasons why mobile is growing at such a high rate, but perhaps one of the most important to recognize (and also one of the most obvious reasons) is increased availability. Why is it that more and more people are getting smartphones for the first time? The answer is simple, the price. The price of a smartphone has been decreasing at a 5% annual rate since 2008. This describes why mobile is prevailing in developing countries. Those populations completely bypassed PCs and adopted mobile as their first experience with the online world. This is similar to the experience of today's youth who will be brought up primarily using mobile devices and tablets first and desktops second. Again, all of these trends are leading to the rising use of mobile to access the internet.It's important to not completely neglect all desktop traffic just yet. As pointed out in hosting our Q1 Content-Commerce Report, for every dollar paid on a desktop click, only 49 cents were paid for a mobile click. There are improvements to be made with the mobile experience, especially concerning the convenience of making online purchases. However, as seen in the trends noted above, mobile is without a doubt growing and your brand's success will be dependent how well you integrate mobile.So why does this matter? Despite these convincing stats, people still aren't giving the proper attention to mobile integration. There are plenty of companies who are now releasing statistics that mobile is over half of their total traffic, yet only a small percentage of websites actually have proper mobile sites. Are you taking advantage of the growing mobile industry?Written by Hanna Fritzinger